On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 04:24:07PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "AT" == Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > AT> The problem is that the packager of libfoofastmem may not know > AT> that building the unpackaged supernumberbar and bazcrunch requires > AT> libfoofastmem. E.g. the people that know where a static lib is > AT> needed are not the packagers, but the consumers. > > That line of reasoning leads to us shipping every static library we > possibly can, just because something we don't know about might use it. Yes, that's correct. > Either the packager knows the static library is needed, or someone's > going to have to tell them it's needed. Let's try this that way, e.g. act on demand. Maybe that should be briefly mentioned in the guideline as well: If users notice that they require a static lib they should contact the maintainer and give the reason both for the maintainer to decide, as well as for the comment. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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